Virtual Repository Media Identification Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a lack of efficient systems for consumers to identify and purchase items featured in movies, TV shows, or events, and for celebrities and production companies to manage and commercialize their wardrobes and props, leading to missed opportunities for both parties.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method using a virtual repository system that allows users to select triggers on portable devices to identify and link to item records associated with media content, enabling the purchase of authentic or similar items through a media identification module and virtual repository matching module, which generates fingerprints and watermarks to identify programs and objects, and facilitates transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a virtual repository system with media identification is implemented, then consumers can efficiently identify and purchase items from media content, but system complexity and implementation costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual repository system that acts as an intermediary between media content and consumers. The system includes a media identification module that captures media data, generates fingerprints, and matches them against a database of virtual repositories containing item information. This intermediary structure enables automated item identification without requiring direct complex interactions between consumers and media producers, thus improving productivity while managing system complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual item identification and research processes with automated media identification technology. Instead of consumers manually searching for item information, the system uses fingerprint generation and matching algorithms to automatically identify items in media content and retrieve corresponding information from virtual repositories. This substitution of mechanical/manual processes with automated systems significantly improves item identification efficiency.
2Productivity
If celebrities and producers share item information through the system, then sales opportunities increase, but privacy and security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality control by allowing different levels of information sharing for different users and items. The virtual repository system enables celebrities and producers to selectively control what item information is made public, what remains private, and who can access specific data. This granular control over information disclosure allows sales opportunities to increase while maintaining appropriate privacy protections for different users based on their preferences and security requirements.
3Ease of operation
If comprehensive item tracking is implemented, then consumer convenience improves, but data processing requirements and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-generating and storing fingerprints for media content in advance, before actual item identification queries are made. The virtual repository system maintains a database of pre-processed media fingerprints and associated item information. When a consumer queries the system, the matching process can quickly compare against pre-generated fingerprints rather than processing entire media files in real-time, significantly reducing data processing energy requirements while maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-implemented method of object linking from captured media records media (audio or video) from a scene of a program (e.g., TV show, movie or other similar audio visual content), identifies the program and the program scene from a watermark embedded in the captured media or by fingerprinting the captured media and matching the fingerprint to determined fingerprints in a database that relates determined fingerprints to programs and program scenes, determines participants in scene from a participant database that relates participants to programs and program scenes, generates links to objects and online commerce sites offering the linked objects. Records for the objects are contained in a virtual repository, a database that relates users (e.g., participants) to object records.